stuffocation

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Sometimes a new but appropriate word results by the thrusting into a recognised word of a redundant letter, as when a man died from eating too much goose the verdict was said to have been "death from stuffocation."

Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error" 1893
< p 131 > new but appropriate word results by the thrusting into a recognised word of a redundant letter, as when a man died from eating too much goose the verdict was said to have been ` ` death from stuffocation. ''

Literary Blunders Henry Benjamin Wheatley 1877